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ALUMNI CAREER RESOURCES

This site is currently being developed through the new Alumni Career Resources Program and will be continually updated to assist alumni with their career goals. Please check back often. If you have any questions, please contact Nancy Brittle, Director of Alumni Career Resources Program, at 540/231-8901 or nbrittle@vt.edu.

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Finding a Job/Changing Jobs | Career Advice | Resource Library

New resources added:

Alumni career coaches and alumni career webinars

FINDING A JOB / CHANGING JOBS?    

 

 

If you have recently been laid off or are worried about losing your job, there are some excellent faces of networkingresources available to help you.

Career Networking

Personal contacts / networking is consistently the largest single source of accepted jobs for Virginia Tech graduates. We asked last year’s graduates and 35 to 48 percent responded they got their jobs through networking and referrals. Networking with professional contacts, colleagues, alumni, professors, friends, and family is one of the most successful ways to identify open positions and change jobs/careers. Network your way to a better job or career.

 

Hokies love to help other Hokies!  By connecting to the Hokie Nation Network, you can browse jobs, talk to Hokies in similar work fields, and meet Hokies in your area. This is a free service to alumni.

  • An Employer's Guide to Hiring Hokies

Interested in hiring a Hokie? Virginia Tech alumni can post job openings under the ‘Careers’ tab on the Hokie Nation Network. Not a Hokie? You can post jobs through the Job Opportunity form.

  • Chapter Events

Hokies love to socialize with other Hokies!  What a wonderful opportunity to meet and talk with other Hokies about their careers, while enjoying a chapter event!

  • Job Fairs - Are you looking for a job fair near you?

    •  Attending a job fair may help you make the connection you need to capture the job you want.

  • Industry Conferences

Engineering Conferences Worldwide: Conference Alerts and All Conferences

Architecture Conferences Worldwide: Conference Alerts

The American Management Association lists some of the seminars for various industries at this site.

  • Social Networking

Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin

 

Interviewing Resources

  • Six interview questions you need to answer to get hired

Six interview questions you need to answer to get hired. Following the answers, there is a link to "The 15 Toughest Interview Questions” that supplies both good and bad answers to the questions.  A very good way to prepare for your next interview

  • SalesHQ Interview advice

 Seven things you must do in an interview

  • Interview Stream

If you want to practice your interviewing skills, Interview Stream is a web-based program that enables you to "practice" interviews. You will need a webcam, your VT PID and password to access: Interview Strea

  • CareerMag.com

CareerMag has a large database of articles on interview and job search related topics

  • Interview Cheat Sheet - From CareerLab

A simple, but effective worksheet for you to use before an interview

  • Job-interview.net

Do you know what the best time for an interview is? If not, then head for this site. All you ever wanted to know on interviewing and more!

Résumés

resumeYes, you may need more than one!  One size may not fit all job applications. For each job you apply for, the resume should be revised to ensure that your qualifications for the required job easily convey the experiences and education that make you the best candidate for THAT job.

CareerLab.com

Informative and motivational with lots of examples. Take a look around this interesting website for career and job search tips.

eRésumés.com

This website is not about résumé writing. It is about taking the content of an existing résumé and transforming it into electronic form. Plus, more interesting and informative links with good research tools.

How to Write a Masterpiece

Excerpts from "Pathfinder," one of the great books on career development. Written by the founder of the Rockport Institute (another great career resource), this is an excellent resource on how to write a real humdinger of a resume.

Do you want to know the Top Ten Ways to get your Resume Noticed?

Massaging your resume - Tips on crafting your resume to sell yourself

Samples

Free samples of résumés and cover letters.

Researching Employers

CareerShift

CareerShift is a website available to alumni who have a vt.edu e-mail address; it includes a set of tools and applications that allows you to:

    • Search and store jobs from all the major job boards, company websites, newspapers and anywhere else a job is posted on the internet.
    • Get inside contact information immediately, including e-mail addresses, for millions of companies, even alumni, then save and manage your lists.
    • Upload, copy and paste as many targeted resumes and cover letters needed or upload your current documents.

Salary

Career Advice

 

 

Virginia Tech alumni briefly share their advice for Hokies looking for career oppportunities.

Virginia Tech alumni provide their insights on the job market and offer helpful advice to Hokies looking for career opportunities.

  • Career Learning Modules/Webinars

Take a few minutes to review a Career Self Assessment presentation to ensure you clearly understand yourself, your skills and talents, and your career interests. 

Express Employment Professionals provide 18 brief audio segments to answer the question: How to be the employee your company cannot live without…

  • Identifying Career Options

Strategies that get you hired

A 10-step guide to a career in sales

What will be the hot jobs of 2018?

Explore career options

YouTube clip: Best Careers 2010: Find the Hot Jobs for the Next Decade

Careercast.com offers a Job Search Portal

Jobs you may not have thought about

Career Planner looks at the Top Jobs for the Future

Entrepreneurship presentation by Mike Martin (video coming soon)

Thinking about getting an online or traditional? Evaluate the differences.

  • Career ‘Facts’ for Hokie Hires

Based on surveys from Virginia Tech graduates, the post graduate report shows who hired Hokies, what majors were hired, how they found their jobs, and more.

Resource Library

 

 

  • Brain Track offers additional career resources on the following topics:

    • Original Career Profiles – Helps those considering a specific career path by detailing: typical occupation responsibilities, activities, and requirements; types of degrees and schools; studies; personal traits associated with that career; and how to evaluate schools.  Several of these careers, such as teaching and nursing, offer scholarships and include original stories from students that offer advice to others seeking similar careers. 
    • Career Statistics – Assists those thinking broadly of career choices by compiling information for over 400 occupations in the US that usually require higher education and are expected to be in demand in the years to come, including percentage breakdown of education levels for workers, number of jobs, and typical annual pay ranges
    • Schools by State – Especially helpful to those seeking an undergraduate or graduate program for a new career (or for advancing a career), BrainTrack's career profiles link to comprehensive lists of relevant public and private schools in each state.  Our lists include only those colleges and universities with accreditation recognized by the US Department of Education.
  • Stress Management

If you are stressed due to a job loss, this site has some helpful hints.

Retired professionals volunteering to help Virginia Tech students and faculty by sharing their time and work experiences